| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, November 6, 2012 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | TBA |
| Abstract: | The majority of experimental data involving neutrino oscillations can be explained by oscillations between the 3 Standard Model neutrinos. However, over last few decades several anomalies have been observed that call for new physics. The LSND experiment observed an excess of electron anti-neutrinos in a muon anti-neutrino beam. The MiniBooNE experiment observed anomalous excesses with both neutrino and anti-neutrino data. The Gallium and reactor anomalies point to deficit of electron neutrino and anti-neutrino events respectively. Intriguing explanation of these anomalies is the existence of light sterile neutrinos. The talk will review the latest results from MiniBooNE and discuss the future outlook. |
| Speaker: | Zarko Pavlovic - LANL
 Dr. Pavlovic earned his B.S. in Physics in 2003 from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and went on to earn his Ph.D. in 2008 at The University of Texas on the MINOS experiment. He moved to a postdoc at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is now on the research staff. He is active in the MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE experiments, involved in combined oscillation analyses and convening the Beam Group. He is also Reconstruction group co-convener on the MINOS+ experiment.
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| Presentation: | Presentation on 11/6/2012 |